The Lost Quotes

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.

Burma evoked the lost Kenyan soldiers who served in the war. You never hear about them. There were a significant number of casualties, men who never came back home. But they're never commemorated.

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders.

Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost.

It's just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days...when, you know, I just want to hide or scream or bleed or something, and...all that...

I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.

Yes, I have loved, Ms. Lane, and although it's none of your business, I have lost. Many things.

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

I've got a great family and great people around me that would be able to kick me in the shins if I ever for one minute got lost up in the clouds. I've been really lucky in that sense.

I have a problem with that silver medal. It's like, 'Congratulation s, you almost won. Of all the losers, you're the number one loser. No one lost ahead of you.'

My mom lost her dad at a very young age, and has this sort of belief system of, you know, "If there's something that you want to do, if there's something that means a lot to you, do it now."

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.

Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.

Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that I lost the sense that my artistic expression was worthy.

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

For 'X-Men' I was lifting a lot of weights. I actually lost a lot of mass when I quit 'X-Men' because I was working out so much and very muscular and strong.

I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.

I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.

You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.

I’ve always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I’ve never lost sight of that.

Nothing is lost forever. Trying keeps the hope alive.

The race is lost. You can't overtake here and I'm starting from 15th... It's over already.

A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

I do believe that almost everything I do is based on my feelings, not on my intellect. Though But we won't chase ourselves up the particular sentiment, or we'll get lost.

This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.

I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.

What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.

Nine and nine makes fourteen, four and four makes nine. The clock is striking thirteen, I think I've lost my mind.

I don't consider this younger generation to be lost, quite the opposite, they must continue. It is up to them. The old political system no longer functions.

If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.

Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing his name.

I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.

If you don't know where you're going, when you get there you'll be lost.